Pauline Cafferkey has made complete recovery and has been discharged from hospital

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EBOLA sufferer Pauline Cafferkey is to be given a medal to recognise her bravery, the Prime Minister said yesterday.

David Cameron said he wanted to honour the nurse from Cambuslang, Glasgow, and hundreds of other ­volunteers who are fighting the pandemic in west Africa.

He said in Parliament: “In recognition of the bravery of those from the UK, I intend to ­recommend to Her Majesty the Queen a new medal to pay tribute to their efforts.”

It came as a report revealed that Pauline probably caught the disease at the Save the ­Children Ebola centre at Kerry Town, Sierra Leone, because she was wearing a visor instead of goggles.

An investigation found Pauline had been trained in the UK using protective clothing and was retrained using different equipment after arriving in Africa.

But when she couldn’t get standard protective goggles to fit, she put on a visor not used by the charity.

The report said: “Both visors and goggles are equally safe but there are slight differences in the types of clothing worn with each, and in the protocols for putting the equipment on and taking it off.”

Pauline became critically ill after she returned from Africa.

She recovered at a hospital in London and has now been discharged.

Justin Forsyth, head of Save the Children, said: “Lessons have already been learned and as a result of the findings we have further tightened our protocols and procedures.

“Staff safety is our number one priority.”

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